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FS#44475 - [gpsdrive] fails to start after installation

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Kacper Why (comotion) - Monday, 06 April 2015, 00:02 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Thursday, 30 April 2015, 13:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After installing gpsdrive simply does not work. I expect the program to be usable without additional configuration, but gpsdrive refuses to start after installation.

Additional info:
* package version 2.11-25
* config and/or log files etc.

Steps to reproduce:
pacman -S gpsdrive
[ user@critiquark ~ ] gpsdrive
Can't connect to gps daemon on 127.0.0.1:2947, disabling GPS support!
DB: Error while opening /usr/share/gpsdrive/geoinfo.db: unable to open database file
[ user@critiquark ~ ] ls /usr/share/gpsdrive/
map_koord.txt mapnik maps osm-template.xml pixmaps
[[ user@critiquark ~ ] sudo touch /usr/share/gpsdrive/geoinfo.db
[ user@critiquark ~ ] gpsdrive
Can't connect to gps daemon on 127.0.0.1:2947, disabling GPS support!
DB: Using waypoints from local user file.
DB: SQLite error: no such table: poi_type
Read 0 POI-Types from geoinfo.db
Generating Mapnik config-file (/home/user/.gpsdrive/osm.xml) from config-template (/usr/share/gpsdrive/osm-template.xml)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
what(): boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::construct: No such file or directory: i:Exit -:PrevPg <Sp"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/"
Aborted (core dumped)
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Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Thursday, 30 April 2015, 13:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Monday, 06 April 2015, 09:22 GMT
Did you read
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GpsDrive
?
Comment by Kacper Why (comotion) - Tuesday, 07 April 2015, 10:18 GMT
Yes, I read the wiki page, which provides lengthy instruftions for some complicated setup which requires imports of OSM maps via osm2pg. How does it solve this problem?
Comment by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Tuesday, 07 April 2015, 11:35 GMT
I understand that gpsdrive is painful, but If you remove file you touched (it is bad idea to give empty file instead of expected database) and add

geoinfofile = /usr/share/icons/map-icons/geoinfo.db
mapnik_font_path = /usr/share/fonts/TTF

into ~/.gpsdrive/gpsdriverc gpsdrive at least starts. You can try to push upstream developers why "make install" does not create working installation.

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